prompt 6

In 500-600 words please give any insights you have gained after reading the book of Romans.

Paul was not writing to all Romans, but rather the members of the Church in Rome who had an understanding of the gospel. Paul teaches the Jewish Christians that the gospel law replaces the law Mosiac Law and further explains that law alone is not enough to save them. That is the reason for Christ and the Atonement – without that act, we would all fall short. Paul points out that the way to become right with the law, or justified, is to exercise faith, repent and keep the commandments.
In Romans 2, Paul taught the Jewish Christians that circumcision and other outward signs of righteousness mean little if they didn’t have faith and obedience. The same can be said of Church members today. If we have the outward signs of obedience but fail to internalize them, it is not enough.
In Romans 4 Paul reminds them that Abraham did not have the Mosiac law, yet still was righteous and faithful. Due to disobedience, the law of Moses was added later so they could live that law before living a higher law. Paul also taught that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and not the Mosiac law was the key to righteousness.
In Romans 6:4 we read, “Therefore we are aburied with him by bbaptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the cdead by the glory of the Father, even so we also shoulddwalk in enewness of life.” Elder M. Russell Ballard sheds some light on this scripture, “The Savior’s gift of immortality comes to all who have ever lived. But His gift ofeternal life requires repentance and obedience to specific ordinances and covenants. Essential ordinances of the gospel symbolize the Atonement. Baptism by immersion is symbolic of the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Redeemer” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1996, 47; or Ensign, Nov. 1996, 35).
Romans 8 speaks of being joint-heirs with Christ. The profound meaning of this is expounded by a quote by the Prophet Joseph Smith: “[You] shall be heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. What is it? To inherit the same power, the same glory and the same exaltation, until you arrive at the station of a God, and ascend the throne of eternal power, the same as those who have gone before” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 347). The fact that in verse 17 we find that we have the ability to be joint-heirs with Christ tells so much of our potential. We have the capacity to become like God.
In chapter 13 we read in verse 8-13. “aOwe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that bloveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit aadultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bsteal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not ccovet; and if there beany other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy dneighbour as thyself. aLove worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the blaw. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high atime to awake out of bsleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the aday is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of bdarkness, and let us put on the carmour of dlight.
Let us walk ahonestly, as in the day; not in brioting and cdrunkenness, not in dchambering and wantonness, not in strife and eenvying.
But aput ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the blusts thereof.”

Paul tells the Jewish Christians to get up and live the gospel as it is easy to become casual about complacent. Here, in these verses he gives ideas on how to be more valiant in the faith.